Chicken Manchurian

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Main ingredient: Chicken
Yield: Serves 3-4
Course: Snack/Starters
1 Bowl measurement: 250ml

 

Ingredients for marination

Boneless chicken: 1/2 Kg

Turmeric powder: 1/2 tbsp

 

Salt: 1 tbsp

Ginger garlic paste: 1 tbsp

 

Red chilly powder: 1 tbsp

 

Maida or all purpose flour: 2 tbsp

Corn flour: 2 tbsp

Egg: 1

Lemon juice: 1 tbsp

 

Ingredients for manchuria preparation

Chopped garlic and ginger: 2 tbsp each

 

Chopped cabbage and carrot: 1/2 Bowl

 

Sliced green chillies: 5-6

 

Chopped onions: 1/2 bowl

 

Soya sauce: 1 tbsp, Chilly sauce: 1 tbsp, tomato sauce: 1-2 tbsp

 

Cornstarch (cornflour mixed in 50 ml water)

 

Soaked almond and cashew slices: Few (optional)

Chopped coriander leaves: Few

Procedure

Marinate the chicken with marination ingredients for 15 minutes

 

Step 1: Preheat oil to fry. When oil is sufficiently hot, fry each piece of chicken one by one in medium flame

Let them fry till golden colour (approximately it will take 3-4 minutes)

 

Fry all the pieces and keep them aside

 

Step 2: Preheat 2 tbsp oil in a frying pan.
Stay in medium flame.
Add chopped garlic and ginger. stir-fry for 30 seconds

 

Step 3: Add almond slices, saute for 30 seconds

Step 4: stir fry chopped onions and sliced green chillies for a minute

 

Step 5: Add 1/4 tbsp salt, stir fry for a minute

 

Step 6: Stir-fry chopped carrot and cabbage for 2 minutes

Step 7: Add chilly sauce and soya sauce, stir-fry for a minute

 

Step 8: Add chopped coriander leaves

 

Step 9: Stir-fry fried chicken pieces for a minute

Step 10: Add corn starch to it, stir fry for 2 minutes to the required thickness

 

Step 11: Add and mix tomato sauce, turn off the flame

 

Hot and tasty chicken manchurian is ready :)

 

Chicken manchurian is a good combination of corn soup